When Dan Aymar-Blair, now Dutchess County Comptroller, first told his mother he was running for the position, she responded: “I’m so proud of you, honey. What is that?” The anecdote got a laugh from a dozen residents gathered at a Hyde Park library town hall recently, but it also captures Democrat Aymar-Blair’s central challenge in winning reelection to a full term as comptroller: persuading voters to care about an office so little-understood that even his own mother needed an explanation. His Republican opponent, Will Truitt, the 30-year-old chair of the Dutchess County Legislature, faces a different challenge. To win the...

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